| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| INFECTION | Contagion | |
| CONTAGIUM | Contagion; contagious matter. | |
| CONTAGIONED | Affected by contagion. | |
| ANTICONTAGIOUS | Opposing or destroying contagion. | |
| ANTIVARIOLOUS | Preventing the contagion of smallpox. | |
| PESTIDUCT | That which conveys contagion or infection. | |
| ATTAINT | To affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt. | |
| CONTAGION | The act or means of communicating any influence to the mind or heart; as, the contagion of enthusiasm. | |
| VIRUS | The special contagion, inappreciable to the senses and acting in exceedingly minute quantities, by which a disease is introduced into the organism and maintained there. | |
| CATCH | To take or receive; esp. to take by sympathy, contagion, infection, or exposure; as, to catch the spirit of an occasion; to catch the measles or smallpox; to catch cold; the house caught fire. | |
| IMPREGNATE | ...rubber with sulphur; clothing impregnated with contagion; rock impregnated with ore. ... | |